Kagan Konfirmation

[Robert Sheridan]

Paragraph-2 is the U.S. Circuit courts of appeal system.  Applied to the 
top, it would mean that no one, except perhaps the president, or a man 
on a horse, would be in charge of the soul of the nation; I don't think 
we'd like that very much.

rs

On 8/6/2010 9:05 AM, Jon Roland wrote:
> This politicized confirmation process and its results once again 
> argues for a reform of the judiciary that would avoid it, such as the 
> untethering of federal judicial appointees from particular courts, and 
> casting them all into a single pool from which positions on courts 
> would be filled by drawing from the pool at random, to serve for 
> limited terms. That would somewhat depoliticize the process, and allow 
> nomination of more diverse, knowledgeable, and experienced persons.
>
> Then we could make other rational reforms, such as increasing the size 
> of the Supreme Court to, say, 28, and having cases be heard initially 
> by randomly selected panels of three, appealable to randomly selected 
> panels of nine, and then appealable to randomly selected panels of 27 
> (with one spare). That would enable the Supreme Court to take more 
> cases, for which it now serves as a bottleneck.
> -- Jon
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